Rorschach's test. Volume 1, Basic processes / Samuel J. Beck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beck, Samuel J. (Samuel Jacob), 1896-1980, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rorschach Test.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 223 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Grune & Stratton, 1944.

Summary:

"The intent in the present volume is to demonstrate the processes used in evaluating Rorschach test responses. This task breaks up into two. One, the responses are cited verbatim. Two, each response is evaluated or "scored"; i.e., it is written in the symbols of Rorschach's test language. The book becomes, then, a report on a field excursion into Rorschach associations, and on the systematic ordering of the responses collected. In limiting itself to the individual associations, the book stops short of interpretation. It does not concern itself with whole personality structures. The sole purpose here is to provide students with a moderately steady frame of reference. The hope is that, given such a manual of constant usage, it will be possible to work with the test as a stable instrument. Findings by any two students, or by the same one at different times, can then be compared. To the extent that this is achieved, Rorschach test scoring would become an operationalist technic. The associations and the methods of treating them are public and repeatable. Response summary can be matched with response summary, entirely on the basis of quantitative findings, and irrespective of the psychologic values of the test factors. We can have a comparison of a behavior pattern, stated in Rorschach symbols, with other behavior patterns so stated. The sources of these responses are patient and community groups (children and adults) in Chicago and Boston"-- Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved).

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